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MEMBERS ONLY! !! If you aren’t a member yet don’t worry you can join at the Luau! SEPTEMBER 10th 2003 6:00 pm-7:30 pm @ THE REC BACKYARD 6B Wednesday, September 10, 2003 NAT THE BAT TALK Army says troops will stay in Iraq a yea By Robert Burns THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Army is telling National Guard and Reserve troops in Iraq they will be there a full 12 months, apparently surprising some who had believed the clock started ticking on one-year tours once they reached mobilization sta tions in the United States. Counting time they spent get ting ready before they went and to demobilize after their tours, many reservists now in Iraq probably will find themselves on active duty and away from their civilian jobs for well over a year, officials said Tuesday. An Army spokesman, Lt. Col. Tom Rheinlander, said this does not represent a change in policy, even if some National Guard and Reserve soldiers had thought their active duty would end after a 12-month period that included the weeks or months they spent getting ready to go to Iraq. Reaction from reservists in Iraq indicated confusion. “The biggest problem is not having a definite answer,” said Maj. Stephen lacovelli, 37, from Schaumburg, Ill., a member of the Army Reserve’s 362nd Psychological Operations Company, of Fayetteville, Ark. “We’ve heard two things,” said lacovelli, interviewed in the Tikrit area. “One is that we’ll be stateside by December. The other is that we’ll stay here till March or April. If the case is the latter, it will be a disappoint ment for some, but the troops were told initially that their tour could last up to two years.” The military has authority from President Bush to keep reservists on active duty for up to two years at a stretch, and some have served that long. Most, however, had expected to return to civilian life after 12 months. Separately, the general who commanded all Marine forces in Iraq during the war said Tuesday the last group of Marines will leave Iraq by the first week of October. Lt. Gen. James Conway, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, returned Monday from Iraq after turning over responsibility for security in south-central Iraq to a Polish-led multinational force. Conway said he found the Iraqis to be more than eager to regain control over their country. “I used to think Americans were the most impatient people on earth; I now believe that dis tinction belongs to the Iraqis,” he told a Pentagon news conference. Conway also said that although no weapons of mass destruction have been discov ered in the part of Iraq in which his troops operated, he thinks it likely that elements of a weapons program eventually will be uncovered. Rheinlander said the policy of keeping Army soldiers in Iraq for 12 months has been in effect since it was announced July 23 by Gen. John Keane, then the acting Army chief of staff. In his presentation, however, Keane did not say that 12-month tours for National Guard and Reserve members excluded the predeployment period in the United States and the demobi lization period. In fact Keane made a point of explaining that two National Guard brigades designated for deployment to Iraq next March would serve six months there, with their total time on active duty not to exceed 12 months. “From alert to redeployment and return to home station will last a year,” he said. Left unsaid was that this would be the exception rather than the norm. Rheinlander said a message was delivered to all troops in Iraq in recent days clarifying that both active duty' and reserve units will serve 12 months in country. Rheinlander refused to release the message, saying it was classified. Gen. Richard Myers, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked about tour lengths for National Guard and Reserve troops during his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. In contrast to the Active reservists Recent weeks have seen a a: decline in the total number j Army reservists and Natkft Guardsmen on active duty Total reservists and guards-. 133,188 132,565 131,996 SOURCE Detense Departmsrt statements by Army offL|| Myers seemed to indicate r|| had Iven a change of polio p “They will be extenkp meet our policy goal ofuptB months in Iraq,” M_\en “and given their mobi!k|| and demobilization timeaS on top of that, they'll fbeiaH one year." Myers said extra harc-jl are to be expected dunnj j- of war. "We are a nation at wig ... we expect more, at least t porarily, from our resene J ponent," he said. Economists worry Iraq deficit will drag on econom By Martin Crutsinger THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Bush’s request for $87 billion in new spending for Iraq and Afghanistan will worsen already gloomy forecasts for the budget deficit — sending it above the half-trillion-dollar mark next year — and could ultimately translate into weaker economic growth in the United States. That is the assessment of private econo mists who believe the surging federal deficits, while helping to boost a lagging economic recovery this year and next, will mean trouble down the road in the form of rising interest rates and higher inflation. Bush administration officials, briefing reporters on the details of the president’s plan, rejected this bleak scenario. They said the additional $87 billion that Bush is seek ing for military operations and reconstruc tion will not prevent the administration from achieving its goal of cutting the budget deficit in half over the next five years. But these officials, who spoke on condi tion of anonymity, conceded the request will add from $50 billion to $60 billion to next year’s deficit, which the administration pro jected in July would hit a record $475 billion. The Congressional Budget Office, in its own mid-year update last week, was even more pessimistic with a 2004 deficit fore cast of $480 billion. The CBO, without taking into account the extra spending for Iraq, had already forecast that the deficits over the next decade will total $1.39 trillion, a remarkable turnaround from when Bush took office and officials were forecasting surpluses over a decade that would total $5.6 trillion. Part of the deterioration in the govern ment’s books reflects the 2001 recession and the weak recovery since. Analysts said the administration was right to push through tax cuts and increased government spending to jump-start growth over the past three years. Many now believe growth will be boost ed by more than 1 full percentage point this year and next because of the stimulus pro vided by Bush’s third round of tax cuts, which took effect this summer, and the increased government spending on the mili tary and homeland security. “The tax cuts are getting spent and all the money the government is spending to buy new tanks and planes and missiles reprcv. jobs as well,’’ said David Wyss, chiefett! mist at Standard & Poor’s Co. in NewT | The trouble will come, analysts said,Cm huge deficits persist, as they now expecutf the economy starts growing at faster raif Then the government’s huge borro* | costs will bump up against investments | of private companies seeking to expand™ modernize. The increased demand r- sented by higher government and cons: ' spending will threaten higher inflation: economy operating at full capacity. Higher interest rates and higher infe will mean slower economic growth. “We are on an irresponsible path tom cal policy,” said Martin Baily, head of: f Clinton Administration’s Council ; Economic Advisers. Other private economists also questic how long the U.S. commitment in Iraq last. The $87 billion request will cover,r| the 2004 budget year, which begins Oct I “Investors’ expectations are bea changed,” said Mark Zandi, chief econoir at Economy.com. “1 don’t think any anticipated the magnitude of the coir | ment we are now taking on in Iraq." CALL FOR PAPERS Texas A&M University Undergraduate Journal of Science All undergrads doing research are eligible to submit their work for possible publication. DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2003 Rm. 230 Reed-McDonald or at uis.tamu.edu You’ll Feel Better, Fast! 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There man sitting on the injured and in sho< him up and found officer to ask for h Hurt was speak the police officer \ heard the second p the South Tower. “I didn’t know ly that it was a pla though foul play d my mind. As soon second plane hit I wasn’t just a mere dent,” Hurt said. Hurt then began search for a phone his parents in Texa: them know that he “As I was tryin find a phone, I fel thing like an eartl Incre; By Bi THE The Texas 1 Service, which National Emergen* Training Center, h in funding since l $11.7 million prior “What Sept. 1 demand for (TEE) Todd, director of TEEX. “It gave us ; ing to be taken ligl Created in 1998 training center was fighters, hazardou; managers and other from across the nat more professionally offered classes and emments in their pn Studen By Esthet Sarah Szumi THf Southside garag e-mail Tuesday Transportation Ser nounced number < facility, creating ; garage that current reserved spaces. TS Director Ro< give a presentati Wednesday to dis* but did not show. About 20 stude the meeting began, not present to hear “No one was c Speaker of the Sei suspicion is that 0